Word: queene
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...fact that much of the equipment necessary for the invasion of the islands was aboard ships sailing from Ascension Island, 3,800 miles away, and was not expected to arrive until midweek or so. Britain, meanwhile, continued to requisition vessels of its commercial fleet, including the 67,500-ton Queen Elizabeth 2, the world's second largest passenger liner (after the 70,202-ton Norway), to ferry additional troops and supplies to the Falklands region...
...Queen Elizabeth 2, flagship of the Cunard Line and the last of the great passenger liners of the North Atlantic, was less than a day from Southampton last week on a trip out of Philadelphia when its owners received an urgent message from the British government: the 67,500-ton liner was being requisitioned immediately for military service. Its likely mission: to carry to the South Atlantic some 3,000 to 4,000 men of the Fifth Infantry Brigade and support units, a force that would probably become the nucleus of a permanent garrison in the Falklands if the British...
...last week the government had taken over some 50 private vessels under a legal procedure known as the Queen's Order in Council. These ships included everything from freighters and tugboats to four deep-sea fishing trawlers, which the navy planned to use as minesweepers in the vicinity of the Falklands. The trawlers are better suited to the cold waters of the South Atlantic than the navy's minesweepers. Moreover, the fishing boats are designed to travel long distances and are equipped with fish-detecting sonar equipment that is also capable of tracking enemy ships...
Though it has but one monarch, England does not lack for regally imperious voices. Mrs. St. Maugham (Constance Cummings) is a dowager queen who rules a country house, or seems to. She thunders out non sequiturs in the accents of invincibility. She is half dotty, half a sage and always right. As she tells Miss Madrigal (Irene Worth), who has applied for the post of governess to her granddaughter: "Now that there are no subject races, one must be served by the mad, the sick and those who can't take their places in the outside world...
...atypically U choice for Margaret. Asked whether he would rule out any chance that he would wed the Princess, Lonsdale was gallantly U in his reply: "I think it would be rather rude if I said there was no possibility." Mum was not the word, however, for Queen Elizabeth's press secretary, Michael Shea, whose normally tight lips loosened at a banquet. According to a journalist who was present, he revealed that the family nickname for the Queen when she was bored or displeased was "Miss Piggyface." His indiscretion was so unwisely non-U that Shea might soon...